Question Are the Samsung - 970 EVO Plus worth it ?

aigomorla

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i believe the 970's are cheaper then the 960, so id say yes they are worth it, if were comparing apples to apples.
If your asking is a NVMe 970 is worth it over a SATA 950, then again, id say yes its worth it, NVMe's are vastly superior.
If your asking is a NVMe 970 is worth it over a Intel 660p, then no... unless you love running synthetic benchmarks all day long, you won't notice the difference in speed, however your wallet will notice the difference in price.
 
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pcslookout

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Thanks makes perfect sense!

I know I am forgetting something about NVMe drives. Trying to think what it is. Hmmm.

Is it true that NVMe drives can't be boot drives or no ?
 

NewMaxx

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970 EVO Plus, in my opinion. In terms of overall or all-around performance. It has solid 96L flash, a powerful controller, a hybrid SLC cache design, and is single-sided with full DRAM. The current PCIe 4.0 drives on the market are often touted as being faster but I feel that's deceptive. They also have full DRAM and 96L flash, plus the advantage of higher sequential performance. However the full-drive SLC design has its drawbacks and the controller is a retrofitted E12 which is not as powerful as the Samsung Phoenix. If you have a board that can make use of 4.0 drives and you'll be running multiple NVMe, they might be the better option, but for 3.0 or for a singular-drive solution I feel the 970 EVO Plus is the fastest.

That being said, there's plenty of cheaper drives that will be effectively as fast for daily use.
 

mpo

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Sure, an NVMe can be a boot drive.

Just moved my boot drive from a Samsung 860 EVO (SATA) to a 970 EVO Plus (NVMe) as a boot drive.

For most of my work or gaming, couldn't really tell the difference. With GIS software I use, the NVMe drive does have 10 to 20 percent advantage (3 to 5 second decrease real-world) for common operations with the database stored on the boot drive.

Both the SATA and NVME SSDs are 5x faster than the same database stored on a HDD, and 10x faster than data stored on our work network.